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Toyota Auris Touring Sports Excel Hybrid
The Toyota Auris Touring Sports Hybrid is set to win over many new fans
THIS week I feel relaxed, despite the first murmurings of Christmas, half-term parental responsibilities, office relocation and a leaking shower unit, which only came to light when a distinctly odd-coloured patch appeared on the kitchen ceiling and I put my finger through the plaster.
So how come I still managed to keep calm and carry on, you may well ask?
Well, I’m not saying I was stressfree all the time, but when I stepped inside my test car for the week – the Toyota Auris Touring Sports Hybrid – my woes seemed to evaporate.
Unlike the water dripping ...

Toyota Auris Touring Sports — Hybrid Power In A Family Estate
Toyota Auris Touring Sports
Toyota introduced us to the idea of a hybrid car with its headline-grabbing Prius model. A modest sized petrol engine mated to a supplementary electric motor and you have the recipe for low emissions and great economy, especially around town.
Not everyone has warmed to the rather futuristic Prius shape, but no matter as Toyota is rolling the technology out across its extensive range of cars.
Toyota’s recently revamped Auris blazed a trail as the first family car to come with a choice of three different motors — petrol, diesel and hybrid. Now Toyota claims another world first with the ...

First drive: Toyota Auris Touring Sports 1.8 Hybrid Excel
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Significant reductions in benefit-in-kind tax liability promise to boost interest in the first compact estate model to feature a petrol-electric powertrain, predicts Toyota.
And hybrid versions should soon be accounting for the lion’s share of fleet take-up for the new Auris Touring Sports model, believes Toyota GB president Jon Williams.
“This is the right car for the times,” he said. “As the squeeze continues on business overheads, many drivers are putting their transport costs under the microscope and we have the ideal product for anyone looking to achieve higher efficiency.
“The latest Auris ...

Toyota Auris Touring Sports
We finally get our hands on the diesel version of Toyota’s new Auris estate. What’s it like?
When: August 2013
Where: Kildare
What: 2013 Toyota Auris Touring Sports 1.4 D-4D
Occasion: First Irish drive
Overall rating: 4/5
Having finally got acquainted with the version that will be the volume seller in Ireland we reckon the Toyota Auris Touring Sports is a better car than we did at its international launch. It’s spacious, refined, frugal and good to drive. The only disappointment is that the entry level trim is quite spartan, but that won’t matter to everybody.
Body style: five-door estate
Rivals: Ford Focus Estate, Kia cee’d ...

New Toyota Auris Touring Sport Debuts
Toyota are introducing a new model to the Auris range the new Toyota Auris Touring Sports. This is first time an estate will be offered in the Auris range and it was also be the first in it’s class to offer a full hybrid powertrain utilising Toyota’s Hybrid Synergy Drive technology and there’s good news for British manufacturing and jobs, the new Auris Touring Sports model will be built exculsively in the UK at Toyota’s factory in Burnaston, Derbyshire where the Auris Hatchback and Toyota Avensis models are already being built.
The same engine options that the Toyota Auris hatchback has should be available, with a 1.33 petrol and ...

Toyota Auris Touring Sports green car review
Model/Engine size: Excel Hybrid 1.8 CVT TG
Fuel: Petrol-electric hybrid
Fuel economy combined: 70.6mpg
Green-Car-Guide rating: 8/10
Introduction
The Toyota Auris Touring Sports is the first hybrid estate car, combining good levels of space and 70.6mpg economy – so are there any downsides?
Summary
• Very efficient
• Need to drive it very carefully to come close to official economy
Background
Toyota stuck its neck out with the Prius hybrid. Lots of other manufacturers said it would never work, yet the Prius has been a runaway sales success around the world – and virtually all other manufacturers are now bringing hybrids to market. ...

European sales rocket for Toyota’s Auris Touring Sports
By Derby Telegraph | Posted: October 15, 2013
Auris Touring Sport models on the production line at Toyota’s Burnaston plant. Sales of the estate car boosted overall Auris sales in the third quarter of this year by 66%.
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AN estate version of a car built at Toyota’s Burnaston factory is helping the manufacturer boost sales across Europe.
The Japanese firm started making the Auris Touring Sports an estate version of its popular Auris hatchback at its Derbyshire plant over the summer.
According to the company’s latest quarterly results, Touring Sports sales are now filtering through to its European ...

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Likes
Good levels of cabin space Oddment storage is generous Hybrid Auris drives just like a regular Auris Versatile load space is easy to use
Gripes
Modest outright performance might prove a disappointment Firm ride can prove a little uncomfortable around town Touch screen infotainment can prove sluggish at times Interior plastics can’t compete with best in class
Contrary to popular opinion, the compact SUV hasn’t killed off the compact estate car. Numerous players still consider this an important market for both private and business users, with Toyota ensuring its latest Auris is represented in Touring Sports guise.
Keen to ensure the Auris range appeals to a younger ...

Toyota Auris Touring Sports design
The Toyota Auris Touring Sports version shares the same 2.6-metre wheelbase as the standard five-door, but it is 285mm longer overall – all of that length in the rear overhang, to the benefit of boot space.
Stuart
Digital editor
Sport spec misses out on keyless go and parking sensors but we#039;d still have it
The Auris is suspended via MacPherson struts at the front. One of the reasons to opt for the hybrid version is because, unlike the entry-level 1.3-litre petrol derivative and the 1.4-litre turbodiesel, the hybrid has fully independent double wishbones at the rear, whereas cheaper variants use a torsion beam.
There’s a fully independently suspended ...